Craniotomy

Pott puffy che? Una bambina unicorno

Tolone R, Minute M

2025/10 — pag. 274-274 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 10-year-old girl presenting with frontal swelling, headache, purulent rhinorrhoea and fever, all symptoms consistent with Pott’s puffy tumor, a rare complication of frontal sinusitis. CT and MRI revealed frontal and et...

Quando la sinusite si complica: il caso del tumore di Pott

Ranieri A, Bellini E, Pierantoni L, Andreozzi L, Dondi A, Campoli C, Zucchelli M, Lanari M

2025/4 — pag. 99-100 — DOI

A 12-year-old girl presented to the paediatric emergency room with a painful frontal swelling and fever. Clinical and radiological findings revealed complicated frontal sinusitis with pneumocephalus. Despite initial improvement following endoscopic d...

Una macrocrania subacuta

Incandela V, Mazza S

2025/4 — pag. 97-98 — DOI

A six-month-old infant was admitted to the Emergency Room for loss of consciousness, vomiting and eye deviation. Clinical findings included macrocephaly, bulging fontanelle and repeated episodes of loss of consciousness and vomiting. Brain CT and MRI...

Incremento delle infezioni pediatriche da streptococco di gruppo A e complicanze trombotiche: studio retrospettivo e case series di trombosi dei seni venosi cerebrali

Perre E, Ferrari M, Filice E, Stera G, Francavilla R, Ghizzi C.

2025/1 — pag. 52-55 — DOI

During the 2022 winter, Europe experienced a surge in invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections in paediatric patients, accompanied by reports of severe complications such as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). This study retrospectively ...

I genitori negano traumi

Ramazzotti S

2024/7 — pag. 136-136 — DOI

A 3-month-old infant presented to the ER with sudden crying and collapse. Imaging revealed a right fronto-parietal subdural haematoma and additional bilateral subdural haematomas. The diagnosis was Shaken Baby Syndrome, leading to surgical interventi...

Caduta dallo scivolo

M. Orrù

2015/10

Trombosi dei seni venosi associata a mastoidite e otite media acuta

C. Sandrin, A. Favret, A. Magnolato

2014/1 — pag. 54-56

Lateral sinus thrombosis is a rare and potentially devastating complication of otomastoiditis. Approximately 5-15% of the otomastoiditis develops intracranial complications among which the most frequent one is lateral sinus thrombosis that has an...